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It's really mind-fuckingly cool, IMO. Like, Conway's game of life is neat, and you can really conceptually understand emergent complexity with it. Lenia is next level though, it really hammers it home, given how much the "organisms" look and behave like real organisms.
I am curious where you are finding all these things to post! I'd like to help you post stuff and not make you the only poster here while I just sit back and eat all your content, but I also admit I'm very entry-level/beginner with systems thinking.
A few of them (the simulation ones) I've known about for years. I've worked with people who have worked on flocking sims, and I think some similar stuff came up in my undergrad degree. I did a PhD in climate too, and while I personally didn't interact with complexity stuff there, it's inherent to the field (e.g. the Lorenz attractor is a simplification of a weather model).
Other than that, the posts are from recent stuff I've been reading, partly work related (climate risk assessments), partly just curiosity. Some have come from LinkedIn, some from Mastodon. I follow one or two of the Santa Fe Institute's newsletters too, plus stuff from Cynefin Co (Dave Snowden is great to follow, he attracts interesting people). And a lot of the business risk world seems to be interested in complexity these days too.
Mastodon! Thanks for letting me know I could probably find stuff there. My undergrad complexity class did NOT have flocking sims.
Huh.. That seems like a fairly obvious thing to include.
Perhaps you could add someof the interesting bits and pieces from your class?
We did talk about flocking behaviors as a lovely example of emergent behavior, but never watched any actual simulations of it. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll dredge it up sometime.